Nation: Choosing Up

> Regular Mississippi Democrats, headed by old-line segregationist and
four-term Senator James Eastland, 61, overwhelmingly defeated a
challenge by the Freedom Democratic Party, whose membership is almost
100% Negro. Though the F.D.P. received only 12% of the primary ballot,
the election nonetheless marked the first time since Reconstruction
that Negroes voted in significant numbers in Mississippi. Also for the
first time, Eastland will face substantial opposition in the general
election. Representative Prentiss Walker, a leader of the newly
vitalized state G.O.P., has made no bid for the Negro vote; yet many
Negroes...